We suspected the workday was bleeding farther into your personal time, but we couldn’t prove it. Until now.

Use this expert advice to prioritize your mental health and your job while working from home.

“My job here at Atlassian is to commit crimes and then write very, very detailed confession letters – metaphorically speaking.” Meet Alex: an engineer on our security intelligence team with a wry wit and a penchant for pop-color hair. Less metaphorically speaking, the team’s job (our red team, in particular) is to hack Atlassian’s systems exactly as real attackers would.

Introducing our no-B.S. guide to leading your team through turbulent times.

Be kinder than is necessary. Everyone is fighting some kind of battle.

To navigate the realities of building rapport in a virtual-first world, remember “the three Rs.”

As a researcher interested in teamwork and team effectiveness, March 2020 was a fascinating moment for me. Around the world, knowledge workers at organisations large and small were suddenly forced to work from their homes. As we scrambled to get a read on the effect this was having inside Atlassian, we also commissioned an international, multimodal study to capture and make sense of the impact on individuals and teams across a range of industries as they grappled with these extraordinary changes.

Here’s the cool part: if just one team member increases their cultural acuity, the whole team benefits.

It’s fashionable in the tech world to say that you’re cool with failing. But failure leaves a bad taste in your mouth. The only way to get it out is to prove you’ve learned from your mistake. In that spirit, I recently kicked off a discussion amongst the engineering teams at Atlassian about setting deadlines for the sake of deadlines and, worse, prioritizing that deadline above customer value or the overall health of your product (and team, for that matter).

Help your team thrive – win or lose.